Earlier there was a report about how the Flyers and Avalanche were surprise bidders for the services of Ilya Kovalchuk. Not it turns out that, at least half of that report from Russian tabloid Life Sport was just mistakenly translated.

On the website Gazeta.ru. Kovalchuk’s Russia-based agent, Yury Nikolaev, denied he said that the Philadlephia Flyers put in a bid for Kovalchuk.

“I never said this,” Nikolaev is quoted as saying in the in the translated English version of Gazeta.ru.

See: NBC Sports